Table of Contents

• Part I: The Source of an Epic
• 1. How Many Otto Kahns?
• Part II: The Banker
• 2. Young Man in New York
• 3. Otto Kahn, Harriman, and Railroads
• 4. Kahn the Conciliator
• Part III: The Maecenas
• 5. The Metropolitan Opera, I
• 6. The New Theatre
• 7. The Metropolitan Opera, II
• 8. Made in America
• 9. The House That Was Not Built
• 10. The Amateur Impresario
• 11. ""The Most Considerable Maecenas""
• Part IV: Politics, Economics, and International Affairs
• 12. Otto Kahn and Theodore Roosevelt
• 13. Venture in England
• 14. World War I
• 15. Aftermath
• Part V: The Final Years
• 16. The Roaring Twenties
• 17. ""Crown Prince of the World""
• 18. Crash and Depression
• 19. Twilight and Night
• Index

About the Author

Mary Jane Phillips-Matz is the author of Rosa Ponselle: American Diva, also published by Northeastern University Press, and the highly praised Verdi: A Biography, which won the Royal Philharmonic Prize, the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award, and the New York Governor's Award of Excellence. She served as manager of the Spoleto Festival for several years, and is a regular contributor to Opera News. She lives in New York City. William Weaver is Professor of Literature at Bard College. He is a music critic, author of several books on nineteenth-century Italian opera, and translator of many contemporary Italian writers of fiction. He won the National Book Award for his translation of Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics.